biography
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Galbraith, J(ohn) Kenneth
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pronunciation:
[golbrayth]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908– )
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| biography:
| Economist and diplomat, born in Iona Station, Ontario, SE Canada. He studied at the universities of Toronto, California, and Cambridge, and became professor of economics at Harvard (1945–75, then emeritus), where he spent his career, except for a short period at Princeton, wartime service in Washington, and two years (1961–3) as US ambassador to India. He was a key adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and one of the major intellectual forces in American liberalism, questioning the conventional wisdom of US economic policies and calling for less emphasis on production and more attention to public services. His books include American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), The New Industrial State (1967), The Age of Uncertainty (1977, also TV series), A History of Economics (1987), and A Journey through Economic Time (1994). |
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